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PHILIP HENRY CROCKER 

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THE KEY TO THE SOLUTION 
OF THE WORLDS PROBLEM 




BY 

PHILIP HENRY CROCKER 



The Discovery of the Science of Govern- 
ment 1 

The Key to All Things Held Sacred by 
Mankind 2 

Solution of the Trust Question 3 

The Evil of Forcing Prohibition Upon the 
People 4 

Government Ownership of Railroads is Un- 
constitutional 5 

Universal Peace 6 



DEALERS' AGENT 
PHILIP H. CROCKER, Publisher 

101 WEST MADISON STREET 

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By Philip Henry Crocker 



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THE KEY TO THE SOLUTION 

OF THE WORLD'S PROBLEM 

NO DOMINATION 



THE DISCOVERY OF THE SCIENCE OF 
GOVERNMENT 

A high intellectual morale is the founda- 
tion of efficiency. And you can't maintain a 
high intellectual morale with a guilty con- 
science. 

A guilty conscience annihilates morale, 
and consequently demoralizes efficiency. Ef- 
ficiency means success, and inefficiency fail- 
ure. What therefore is more important to 
the individual than maintaining a high intel- 
lectual morale? 

Happiness must accompany success, or it is 
no success at all. Therefore, "What profit- 
eth a man if he gains the whole world" and 
loses his intellectual morale? 

How can one acquire this morale, which 
means real success? Everything is simple 
when you discover the right principle. Ev- 
erything in life operates from principles 



(good or bad). We can accomplish nothing 
worth while without operating from correct 
fundamental principles. 

Seek first fundamental principles and all 
other things will come to you — providing you 
obey the first law of Life, which is Activity — 
WORK. 

A high intellectual morale is attained and 
maintained only when we permit our 
thought, speech and conduct to be dominated 
by what we know to be right and in these 
principles we also have one of the greatest 
educational forces right within us. 

The fundamental principles or the key to 
scientific government was discovered from 
the following proposition by common 
analysis : 

We know from personal experience that 
GOD NEVER DOMINATES our thought, 
speech or conduct, unless we, of our own 
volition, permit His principles to dominate 
us. 

The analysis proves conclusively that NO 
DOMINATION IS THE BASIC PRIN- 
CIPLE WHICH SAFE-GUARDS THE 
LIBERTY AND FREEDOM GOD HAS 
GIVEN MAN. 

In other words, NO DOMINATION IS 
REVEALED TO BE THE FUNDAMEN- 
TAL LAW WHICH GOD HAS ESTAB- 
LISHED FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF 
MAN. 



All the sorrow and misery in the world 
that we know of, including the unadvertised 
woes of the human family emanates from 
just one single solitary fundamental error 
in our existence — Domination. DOMINA- 
TION IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL. You 
suffer from the domination of others and 
from your own sins of domination for the 
sins you yield to are the things that domi- 
nate you. 

There are countless dominating factors 
retarding the progress of the world. One 
of the chief forms of domination is ignor- 
ance — ignorance of the Truth. The Truth 
will set the whole world free. 

In opposing all domination we become 
opposed in principle to commercialism, but 
on the other hand, our principles prevent 
us from interfering with any commercial 
enterprise. But our principles do not pre- 
vent us from teaching the coming genera- 
tions the New Doctrine of No Domination. 
This basic principle will always protect the 
welfare of the Nation, while the new propa- 
ganda goes forward. 



THE KEY TO ALL THINGS HELD 
SACRED BY MANKIND. 

The right to life, liberty and the pursuit 
of happiness are not only our constitutional 
rights, but they are sacred privileges by 
divine right. But there is a limitto these 
privileges. 

DEFINING THE LIMIT TO THE 

PRIVILEGES OF 

LIBERTY. 

THE LIMIT TO THESE PRIVILEGES 
IS REACHED THE VERY MOMENT 
THESE RIGHTS ARE ABUSED. AND 
EVERY ABUSE OF THESE CONSTITU- 
TIONAL AND SACRED PRIVILEGES 
ORIGINATES, WITHOUT EXCEPTION 
FROM ONE OF THE MANY DIFFERENT 
FORMS OF DOMINATION. From this 
angle it can be clearly seen that the divine 
principle of NO DOMINATION IS THE 
SAFEGUARD TO LIBERTY. 

It is not only the safeguard to liberty, but 
it is the key and safeguard to all things 
held sacred by mankind. It is the key to 
the solution of the world's problem — ulti- 
mate freedom from all domination and the 



principle of No Domination is the key to its 
own solution. 

Whoever abuses the privileges of any 
liberty; unwittingly conspires against his 
own welfare. Flagrant violation of any 
principle of liberty jeopardizes the individ- 
ual's liberty. Minor abuses of any privilege 
may escape the law of the land, but the 
guilty cannot escape the penalties of the 
reaction which inevitably follows the abuse 
of any privilege. Whatever wrong principle 
dominates the individual to abuse any privi- 
lege, will dominate and retard his progress 
until that particular vice is overcome. 

We suffer from the domination of others 
and also from the sins that dominate others. 
Every sinner starts a chain of trouble. We 
are so interwoven, so inter-dependent in our 
complex economy, that one single dominat- 
ing evil can effect the entire nation or the 
entire world. 

We now have the fundamental basis to 
aid us in distinguishing the difference be- 
tween what is right and what is wrong. 

DOMINATION IS THE DIVIDING LINE 
WHICH SEPARATES RIGHT FROM 
WRONG. Domination is the foundation of 
all injustice. Here we have the funda- 
mental basis for human laws of justice. 

The principles of No Domination gives 
every legislator the fundamental basis for 
constructive legislation. It gives every 



nation on earth a perfect science of Govern- 
ment. It gives every home a perfect science, 
an infallible guide for scientific home Gov- 
ernment. 

No Domination is the safeguard to Love. 
It is the protecting principle of Love. Love 
is the feminine — No Domination is the mas- 
culine. Male and female created He them. 

While our constitution is not a perfect 
instrument and will not be until posterity- 
rises above commercialism and incorporates 
therein the basic principle of Scientific Gov- 
ernment — No Domination. Yet, neverthe- 
less the one single basic principle in our 
constitution, which is the principle of Lib- 
erty is sufficient to safeguard the rights of 
the people. 

This fundamental principle of liberty is 
the supreme ruling power of our country. 
No state in the union can enact a law violat- 
ing the principles of liberty. Any law which 
violates the basic principles of liberty is 
unconstitutional and consequently can be 
annulled by the supreme court; therefore, 
our constitutional form of Government is a 
Government which governs from principles, 
which is proper, and is not a Government 
that is ruled by the majority of the people, 
which also is proper, not only proper, but 
idealistic. It is the ideal form of Govern- 
ment. 

A nation is best governed, just as the 
individual is best governed when by his own 



consent, he permits his thought, speech and 
conduct to be governed by divine principles, 
wherein the individual and likewise the 
nation to be governed right, must yield to 
a higher power for guidance. 

It is impossible for the individual to gov- 
ern right, but it is not impossible for the 
individual to be governed right, from right 
principles. The same principle is applicable 
to a nation. It is impossible for 100,000,- 
000 people to govern right, but it is not 
impossible for one hundred million people to 
be governed right from right principles. 

This is all as it should be, for God has 
never relinquished to any individual or any 
combination of individuals the right to 
rule. There is but one ruler — God. 

The people have never ruled — do not rule 
now and never will. God knows they can't. 

Congress and the Senate will properly 
always have the right to enact laws by rule 
of the majority, but it does not follow that 
every law they pass is constitutional. Any 
law enacted and signed by the President, 
which is found to be unconstitutional, can 
be annulled by the Supreme Court, which 
all substantiates the new construction placed 
upon the constitution, that our constitu- 
tional form of Government is a Government 
which governs from principles and is not a 
Government that is ruled by the majority of 
the people. 

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SOLUTION OF THE TRUST QUESTION. 

The discovery of the key to Scientific Gov- 
ernment gives birth to a new national politi- 
cal organization which will be called The 
Liberal Party. 

The Liberal Party will be seen to be 
founded on the only true Science of Gov- 
ernment. Its fundamental principles are 
unassailable, infallible and uncrucifiable. 
They will not only endure the acid test 
of the present, but for all time to come. 
Never in the history of the world has there 
been a greater need for a perfect Science of 
Government. The new star in the political 
firmament is discovered at the psychologi- 
cal moment. 

Let us get back to earth. Let us not for- 
get the world's tremendous capacity for pro- 
duction. The constant menace to the world 
is overproduction. Capital in seeking an 
outlet for this vast production is forced to 
war for commercial supremacy, while on the 
other hand, overproduction forces labor into 
idleness, poverty and wretchedness. Com- 
mercialism glides the world right into war 
and blood-shed practically against the will 
of all mankind, for man is inherently good. 

There will be "wars and rumors of wars' 9 
just as long as the world operates on a com- 

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mercial basis. The world is willing — per- 
fectly willing to have peace — perpetual 
peace — but the world is not ready — not yet. 
A great gulf exists between willingness and 
readiness. America therefore must be pre- 
pared for war, just as long as Gold is God of 
the universe. 

In order to diminish the danger of over- 
production, we must place the power of pro- 
duction at a disadvantage. This we can do 
to some extent by throwing the throttle 
wide open to all competition in trade with- 
out restraint. The competitive system is 
unscientific and, therefore, requires more 
labor for production. 

Among other evils of the Trusts, is their 
splendid capacity for production with a 
minimum of labor, by reason of their effi- 
cient organization. Efficiency is fine, but 
when it benefits a few to the detriment of 
the many it isn't so fine to contemplate. 

Their capacity for production and effi- 
ciency to curtail and reduce labor to a mini- 
mum, aggravates the sore spot in our deli- 
cate economic system. On top of this add 
their intensified domination and you can 
sum up their total value. These big splen- 
did institutions operate too efficiently, too 
scientifically, for our present unscientific, 
unbalanced, unsound, insane economic 
system. 

All efforts to control trusts through the 
courts have collapsed. This vital question 

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still remains unsettled. To permit the trusts 
to operate to the detriment of labor, would 
be an injustice to the masses. To destroy 
the trusts would be an injustice to capital. 
The principles of scientific Government oper- 
ate with Justice to all- 
Justice demands that the trusts shall be 
regulated and the regulating principle of No 
Domination will scientifically settle the dom- 
ination of the trusts. NO DOMINATION 
IS LIFE'S REGULATING PRINCIPLE- 
LIFE'S REGULATOR. 

Domination of the trusts creeps out from 
various unilluminative spots. They can 
weaken small rivals into bankruptcy and 
corrupt legislatures. They can control pro- 
duction and exact extortionate prices. Con- 
trol of production also means control of 
labor. They are holding the people up in 
broad day light unmolested. The people 
helplessly have thrown their hands up in 
despair. 

In order to protect the small rivals (the 
independents) of the trust, we propose that 
the federal authorities co-operate with the 
independents and fix the selling prices of all 
their commodities, so that these prices will 
be fair to both, the independents and the 
consuming public. The trusts shall main- 
tain these prices under penalty. 

The trusts by reasons of their efficiency 
reduce the cost of production and, therefore, 
would be netting a greater percentage of 

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profit on every dollar invested than would 
the independents. We propose to designate 
all this increased profit resulting from their 
efficiency as excess profit and propose to tax 
all of this excess profit. We maintain that 
their splendid efficiency to curtail labor is 
detrimental to labor and, therefore, propose 
to reimburse labor for this loss by taxing 
this efficiency for the benefit of labor. A 
fund to be established specifically for the 
individual needs of the worthy in time of 
stress. 

The natural inclination of the people to 
patronize the independents would be neu- 
tralized by the knowledge that the excess 
profits of the trusts revert to the people. 
Popular prejudice would be transformed into 
good will for the trusts, which offsets their 
increased taxes. The protection given the 
independents, coupled with the knowledge 
that the people stand behind them, takes 
care of the independents. We propose fed- 
eral supervision to prevent overcapitaliza- 
tion of the Trusts. 

SUBSTANTIATING THE VALIDITY OP 
THE TRUST SOLUTION. 

' ' The Interstate Commerce Commission 
fixes railroad charges, the public service 
commission of New York fixes the rates of 
various public utilities, the legislature of 
New York has limited the profits of the gas 
trust of New York City and the courts have 
sustained them in their action/' 



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THE EVIL OF FORCING PROHIBITION 
UPON THE PEOPLE. 

God commanded Adam not to eat of the 
fruit of a certain tree. There must have 
been a reason why God did not surround 
this tree with an impregnable barrier so 
that Adam couldn't get at the evil back of 
the bar. There must have been a reason 
why God didn't in the first place destroy 
the evil altogether so that Adam couldn't 
partake thereof. And last, but not least, 
there must have been a principle involved 
when GOD DIDN'T FORCE ADAM INTO 
OBEDIENCE. 

The question often asked — If God created 
man good, why isn't he good? The truth is 
that God created man wonderfully good. He 
created man so that he could be good. BUT 
GOD NEVER FORCES ANY ONE TO BE 
GOOD. 

Let us not become confounded with the 
infinite forces that God commands. What- 
ever they are, we do not know. But this we 
do know— that GOD NEVER FORCES 
ANY ONE TO BE GOOD. He never domi- 
nates your thought, speech or conduct un- 
less you permit His principles to dominate 
you. In establishing the fundamental laws 
for the Government of man, God in his 

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infinite wisdom did not include the prin- 
ciples of force or domination. 

Temperance or total abstinence springs 
from individual volition which is in har- 
mony w^ith scientific Government, but pro- 
hibition aims to govern others against their 
consent, which is a flagrant violation of the 
very first law of scientific Government. 

Even to save the whole world, God would 
not violate any of the fundamental laws 
He established for the Government of man. 
These basic principles of Government are 
more sacred than any evil. The LIBERTY 
of a Nation is more sacred than human life. 

A law which would force prohibition upon 
the people would be a strict violation of the 
fundamental principles of Government. We 
cannot sacrifice the basic principles of lib- 
erty for all the evils of intemperance. 

Prohibition is not only unscientific but 
unconstitutional. A law which would force 
the distilleries, breweries and saloons out 
of business would be a plain infringement 
upon individual rights guaranteed by the 
constitution, besides flagrantly violating the 
principles of liberty which the entire nation 
holds unchangeable and sacred. The Liberal 
Party, therefore, is unalterably opposed to 
the evil of forcing prohibition upon the 
people. 



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GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAIL- 
ROADS IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. 

The Government cannot ride over its own 
constitution and monopolize the railroads. 
The constitution prevents the Government 
from giving any individual or combination 
of individuals exclusive privileges: Monopo- 
lies are unconstitutional. 

The basic principle of liberty is held 
sacred by the nation and cannot be in- 
fringed upon by the Government, not any 
more than God would violate the basic law 
of Heaven. 

There is nothing in the constitution to 
prevent the Government from buying the 
railroads, providing they all wish to sell, 
but if one little jerkwater road didn't want 
to sell, the Government would have no right 
to force its sale. On the other hand, assum- 
ing all roads acquiesced and sold to the 
Government, new charters for other lines 
could not be refused by the Government — 
not with the principle of liberty incorpo- 
rated in the constitution. 

Government monopoly of all railways is, 
therefore, unconstitutional. It might be said 
that the U. S. Mail is a monopoly. It is, 
but, if there is any corporation large enough 
that thinks they can compete with the U. S. 

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Mail, they can have the privilege, as the 
Government could not refuse a charter with 
the principle of liberty embodied in the 
constitution. 

The contaminating influences of commer- 
cialism are bad enough for the people, but 
a Government that operates from principles 
which are nearly perfect, will avoid en- 
gaging in further commercial enterprises. 
While we are opposed to any policy that 
will involve the Government in any further 
commercial undertakings, we are not op- 
posed to municipal ownership of public 
utilities. 

Eight here we might as well explode the 
deluded idea that Government ownership of 
railroads would benefit the people. At the 
present writing, in the midst of the world 
war, our Government has wisely taken over 
all the railroads, and while sinister schemes 
and influences may be worked in the mean- 
time for various reasons to discredit Gov- 
ernment ownership in the eyes of the people, 
yet nevertheless the underlying principle — 
Unity of action (which is a success prin- 
ciple) would eventually and inevitably de- 
velop a high order of efficiency in their oper- 
ation, but, this efficiency consists of nothing 
except loss to labor, as the working force 
could be reduced by thousands. Thousands 
holding railroad positions would be thrown 
out of employment, but the evil does not end 
here. A chain of evil follows. The evil 

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effects thousands of others and keeps spread- 
ing with a far reaching effect, which is gen- 
erally underestimated. 

When w^e remember that our capacity for 
production exceeds by far our power of con- 
sumption, it behooves us to exercise care in 
fostering and maintaining conditions that 
will increase and not decrease the demand 
for labor. The competitive system of rail- 
roads, like all other competition, keeps the 
demand for labor on the increase. 



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UNIVERSAL PEACE. 

The constantly increasing inventions of 
labor saving machinery, which eventually 
will reduce working hours to a minimum, 
has not as yet been instrumental in reducing 
the hours of labor, owing to the grasping- 
spirit of domination which stands behind 
all commercialism. 

The inventive ability of man are God 
given qualities. This is a divine gift. 
Geniuses by the millions, of the past and 
the present, have sought and are still seek- 
ing expression, but economic conditions are 
against them. Ultimately when the time, 
labor and energy of the people will be con- 
served by the people for the people, the God 
given inventive genius of man will astound 
the universe. Working hours will be re- 
duced to such an extent that the word 
1 ' toil" will fall into a state of "Innocuous 
Desuetude." 

"While countless embryonic geniuses have 
been forced to stand mute before the 
economic barriers confronting them, a few 
have not lived in vain. The fruits of their 
labor will prove vital factors in demolishing 
the economic barriers that stand between 
helpless humanity and peace. 

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It would have been only a question of 
time when we would become swamped with 
over-production, as a result of inventive 
genius, that would plunge both capital and 
labor in despair. Capital would become 
frantic in seeking an outlet, while labor 
would be plunged into idleness, poverty and 
wretchedness, resulting in internal disorders, 
riots, revolution and bloodshed, with chaos 
reigning supreme. Evil has an effective 
way of its own in working out its own de- 
struction. 

Commercialism was simply gravitating 
towards its own destiny — destruction. It 
was doomed to collapse and no power on 
earth could have avoided the crash. Its 
perpetuity as an economic basis is an im- 
possibility. 

The principles as enunciated herein neu- 
tralizes the inevitable crash that eventually 
would have been precipitated by the fruits 
of inventive genius. 

Capital as well as labor will see the wis- 
dom of getting together beneath the pro- 
tective wings of the new party. 

The universal selfishness which appears to 
be in man is not natural. Our entire 
economic structure is based on selfishness, 
which forces each individual to adopt the 
universal trait of selfishness for his own pro- 
tection, when in reality all men are inher- 
ently good, notwithstanding delusions to the 
contrary. 

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The confidence we have today in the 
almighty dollar will ultimately be trans- 
ferred to humanity itself. The medium of 
exchange — the old specie will eventually 
give way to the new specie — man himself. 
The only thing that will be left of the old 
specie will be the motto. This will be 
planted where it belongs — in the hearts of 
men — In God We Trust. 

The struggle of humanity in a sense is a 
battle for time. 

Don't infringe upon the time of another, 
without giving an adequate return. 

This motto can be applied to almost every 
relationship in life. 

God did not intend that the inventive 
power which He bestowed upon man should 
benefit a few to the detriment of the many. 
It is clearly the will of God that the time, 
labor and energy of the people shall be con- 
served by the people, for the people, and not 
until this divine wish is fulfilled will their 
be peace for humanity. 

What we needed, was just one ideal for 
which the whole world could strive for in 
unity, an ideal that could be embraced by all 
regardless of race, creed or nationality. We 
have it. One ideal, one slogan for the whole 
world— NO DOMINATION. 

Government is a science and there can be 
but one true science of Government, there 

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can be no other. The analysis herein proves 
conclusively without leaving even a scintilla 
of a suggestion of a doubt that No Domina- 
tion is the fundamental, basic law of scien- 
tific Government. 

From now on the thought of the world 
will oscillate towards two fundamental prin- 
ciples. The thought will alternately be 
focused on the injustice of domination and 
the Justice of No Domination. The field for 
thought here is inexhaustible. "Seek and 
You Shall Find" yourself — flooded with 
inspirational and illuminative thought. 

SOCIETY EVOLUTES STRICTLY 
FROM PRINCIPLES, and from now on 
humanity will gravitate with a greater 
momentum towards the goal of freedom. 
Freedom from all domination is humanity's 
goal — the ultimate destiny of mankind. 

The doctrine of No Domination will grad- 
ually draw all men and all nations together, 
until the w^orld will unite in forming a fed- 
eration of the United States of Nations — 
One flag for the whole world. The millenium 
as predicted in the bible will eventually be 
ushered into the world. No Domination, 
which is the key to the solution of the 
world's problem, is the key that ultimately 
will unlock the doors of heaven on earth. 
It is the key for which the christian people 
have been praying for, for nearly two thou- 
sand years. Thy kingdom come, thy will 
be done on earth as it is in Heaven. 



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